What a BIG BIG world. Bits of playing outside / exploring the jungle / playing with friends & mastering the universe...

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Music: humm ok by Gablé 

1. The only view i get outside
2. Safe Driver
3. Buddies!

Happy Weekend

...my grace is sufficient... 

I close my eyes and speak to God, sometimes thanksgiving for food, asking for protection, joy in his healing, and sometimes I whisper cries I can't even voice aloud. Sometimes I am honest about the pain and anger that come with what I don't understand

but his grace

his grace is enough.

the fact that I didn't have to do anything except believe in him and what he did and what he is I have a eternal life. that simple.

Ephesians 2:8-9   ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast. 

that grace

the grace of I'm not even close to worthy and didn't have to be

the grace of I'm loved

there is a line in a song that gets my heart pounding that says 

"This Is the story of Christ hanging on a cross for me and it ends with a eternal celebration"

everything else is just everything else, my story is about Jesus and what he did for me

Everything can get crazy

I can/will fall short

I can miss out on some thing

I can not get my way

I can not have my dream insert whatever I want this week

it's simply about 

the grace I have received, the spirit living and moving inside of me and my home in eternity.  

his grace is sufficent, sometimes I can only whisper it but it is my truth.

tonight i'm whispering it  

we've been sick

so it's been lots of mani/pedi time

pj's

Clifford

and of course pancakes

family photo

Fridaty + an adorable sneak into this evening 

Chick-fi-la hosted a Father Daughter Date night tonight. I wasn't allowed :( not even to take pictures but I begged Kevin to grab at least one or two and the good husband he is did. He said that their was an entire section decorated for  only the reserved Father's and Daughters. The tables were dressed in black table clothes, roses, and candle's and of course a red carpet & limo rides. AND on the special menu "conversation suggestions"! I love my Chick-fi-la.

Happy Weekend.

Joslin Eats

(sidebar- thanks for not calling me out on totally flaking on my "weekly" Joslin eats..ha)

Some days me & the kitchen just aren't on good terms, and on those days I try to only visit the "cooking area" at dinner. Today was one of those days. But I can look at that lunch and know it was healthy and most importantly worked! 

...

 If I expect my little to eat healthy that means I do too...blah BLUEBERRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are dried and after making myself swallow the first three they started tasting like fruit-roll ups ha. And now I'm really diggin' them. I use that same thinking with Joslin. She is so my daughter in the sense that if I ask her to try something she will make it her mission to HATE IT but if I just give it as a option with no expectation and eat some also she will be open to loving it. strong willed that kid. So at lunch that's what i do, i fix her plate and mine mostly the same and ignore what she eats or doesn't eat. In fact I don't even pay attention in a sense, we just talk. She may hate something at first try but it may grow on her. I don't force her to try or eat anything I give options and one's she rejects are on the next plate with more options. It's where she has control and in giving her that with no crazy praises or battles it works for us. Maybe she will start to love them, maybe not no big. 

Mushrooms. Some days I like them some days I don't she is the same. Today's rejection Pine-Apple. Which I know she likes but not today I guess. 

I realize I just made a full paragraph saying the same exact thing over and over you have to excuse me my night ended late and my day started at 4am. I'm a bit zonedddddddddddddddd      (yes i just made a word)

my husband should be writing this post, maybe i'll convince him to doodle something out later but this weekend was very special for him. Since the day we found out I was pregnant Kevin has always with great pride described the date nights he and his daughter would share. Dances/Movies/Fishing etc etc those moments set aside for her and her only are something he finds very special. This weekend was one of those events.

Our church host a Purity Ball, for parents and their children. Parents commit to living a Pure life an example for their family and children the same. No matter what you believe I think you can find the positive in saying you are going to hold yourself accountable for what your child learns and that is something that warms this momma's heart. 

The part that I know melted his was the first father daughter dance they shared. He shared "I know she will never remember when I was 14months old my dad & I shared our first dance, in my purple birthday dress and black combat boots in a aquarium. But I, her father, will."

I almost lost it.

no i don't have a photo of the dance i was too in the moment but you can imagine how adorable it was

Wait it's sunny!! We are outside!

Our good friends/neighbors came over for some chatting/baby playing/outsidin' and Rachael snapped a few photo's that I so love.. unplanned no posing, fitting to our life and those moments. What a great minder of that day. 

all together now "pitifuuuuuul" 

more later but have to clean (boo)

and by the way here is my Rachael, I could just go on and on about her but since I'm on a "nap timer" I will say this, she is a very very good friend. and those are very special 

& that's baby Jude who is Joslin's age(old pic) and her sweet husband Dan!